Lean can be applied to all types of businesses and spans across all facets within your current business. A lean culture recognizes that waste is everywhere. A focus on Value Added activities become the norm as waste continues to be identified and eliminated throughout the organization. It’s not just a manufacturing tool. A true lean strategy will lead to the transformation of the […]
Ten Tips to Lean
- Advanced Lean Manufacturing
- APQP
- Availability
- Capacity
- Eliminate Waste
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- Lean
- Lean Metrics
- OEE: Overall Equipment Efficiency
- Performance
- Problem Solving
- Process Control and OEE
- Quality
- Root Cause Analysis
- Training
Availability and OEE
What is Availability? In its simplest form, availability measures the uptime of a machine or process against the planned production time. As one of the factors of Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE), Availability is expressed as a percentage. The uptime is calculated by taking the difference between the planned production time and total duration of the downtime events that occurred during the planned production period. We […]